2010 - Adjunct professor – School of Education, Bar-Ilan University. Teaching graduate courses for the M.A. and the Ph.D. program – Gestalt Therapy: Theory and Practice, The Ph.D. Colloquium for the graduate students.

2009 - 2010 Professor – Department of Social Work and Psychology, United International College, Zhuhai, China. Courses at B.A. level: Human Behavior and Social Environment, Human Development, Social Work Research, Theories of Personality, Introduction to psychology, Social Psychology, Supervision of Honor degree research project.

Courses at the Ph.D. and M.A. level: The Ph.D. Colloquium, Seminar on Cognitive Therapy; Thesis seminar; Seminar on Social deviance; Family Therapy; Statistics; Person, Society and the Computer; Critical Reading of Research Articles; Qualitative research; Gestalt therapy; Emotional disturbances among children and adolescents.

Co-project director in a demonstration grant on the implications of alcohol abuse among drug addicts on treatment and recovery.

1971-1973 Research and Development Center for cognitive Learning University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Data analyst (part-time position) in the Pre-reading Skill Project under the directorship of Prof. R. Venezky.

1968-1971 Municipality of Rishon-le-Zion, Israel; The Psycho-educational Clinic - Director of the Clinic. Responsibilities: Psychological evaluation and individual therapy of children, consultation with school personnel and parents.

Member of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Substance Abuse; Appointed by the Minister of Social Affairs (1979 – 1981).

Member of the steering committee of the National Epidemiological Survey on Substance Abuse in Israel (1982) - Institute of Applied Social Research

Reviewer and Ad Hoc editorial consultant to:

Educational Psychologist, Journal for Jewish Religious Education, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Personality and Individual Differences, British Journal of Psychology, Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, Megamot (Hebrew), Crime and Social Deviance(Hebrew).

Member of the organizing committee of The First International Congress on Drugs and Alcohol, 1981.

22Cohen, A. (2009). The facets of depression: A new inventory for measuring depression. In A. Cohen (Ed.), Facet Theory and Scaling: In search of structure in Behavioral and social sciences. Jerusalem: FTA.

25Cohen, A., & Levy, A. (2009). The Facets of Depression: A New Inventory for Measuring Depression. In A. Cohen (Ed.), Facet Theory and Scaling: In search of structure in Behavioral and social sciences (pp. 215-227). Jerusalem: FTA.

26Cohen, A., Kramerski, B., & Mevarech, Z. (2009). Self-Regulation in Learning Questionnaire among the Israeli Examinees of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). In A. Cohen (Ed.), Facet Theory and Scaling: In search of structure in Behavioral and social sciences (pp 281-291). Jerusalem: FTA.

aCohen, A. (1990). Experiences of former graduate students. In H. J. Klausmeier: The Wisconsin Center for Education Research: Twenty-five years of knowledge generation and educational improvement. Madison, WI: School of Education, University of Wisconsin. Cohen, A. (1999).

bCohen, A. 2002). Gestalt therapy and mechanisms of defense: How to identify them and how to work with them according to the gestalt therapy principles. A teaching kit that enables the assimilation of gestalt therapy approach to mechanism of defense.

cCohen A. (2002). Chief academic consultant of three volumes’ series written by R. Pasternak on: Issues in the sociology of education. Tel Aviv: Open University (in Hebrew).

CONVENTION PRESENTATIONS

1Cohen, A., & Farley, F. H. The common item problem in measurement. Presented at the Annual American Educational Research Association Convention, April 15, 1974, Chicago.

2Barr, H., Ottenberg, D. J., & Cohen, A. Drinking by addicts. Presented at the North American Congress on Alcohol and Drug Problems, 1975.

3Cohen, A. Interface between abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Presented in a panel on the National Drug and Alcohol Collaborative Project at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, June 12, 1976, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

9Cohen, A. Treatment approaches to substance abuse. A Congress on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, December 18-19, 1979, The Institute of Criminology, Jerusalem University (in Hebrew).

10Cohen, A. The use of psychiatric diagnosis in the classification of substance abusers. The National Integrative Conference on Drugs, November 24-25, 1980, Jerusalem University.

11Cohen, A. The 'Urge to Classify' the drug user: A review of three approaches. The International Congress on Drug and Alcohol, September 13-18, 1981, Jerusalem.

12Sivan, A., & Cohen A. Sensation seeking and exposure to drugs among adolescents. The 5th National Conference of the Israeli Criminology Society, April 1982, Jerusalem University.

13Cohen, A., Shmida, M., & Zidkiyahu, S. A questionnaire for measuring level of democracy in high school. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education, 1983, Jerusalem University.

18Cohen, A. Education as a primary prevention of delinquency. Children of Prisoners: Problems and Solutions. June 12, 1991. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

19Cohen, A., & Sagi, R. The relationship between attitudes towards democracy and personality variables in high school students. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. June 29-30, 1991; Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

20Apple, Z., & Cohen, A. Marital enrichment according to PAIRS model. The 9th Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Family Therapy, October 21-22, 1992, Israel.

21Cohen A., & Agbaria, A. A. J. The perception of school climate among Arab high school students. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. February 16-18, 1993; Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

22Cohen, A., & Schiff, R. A comparison of linguistic, characteristics between poor skilled readers. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. February 16-18, 1993; Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

23Cohen, A., & Cinamon, R. The relationship between the parent punishing style and the child attribution style. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. February 16-18, 1993; Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

24Cohen, A. School climate and educating for democracy. International Conference for Democracy in Multicultural Society; June 6-10, 1993, Jerusalem, Israel.

26Apple, Z., & Cohen, A. A training program for leaders in group work with couples. The National Conference on Group Theory. March, 1994, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

27Cohen, A., & Shalom, H. A new version of a questionnaire for measuring school climate. The 11th Scientific Conference of the Israeli Society of Research in Education, February 5-7, 1995, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

29Cohen, A., & Apple, Z. A new scale for measuring level of differentiation among couples. The 7th International Conference on Family Therapy. March 10-13, 1997. Jerusalem, Israel.

30Cohen, A., & Shtauber, G. The relationship between family climate and authoritarianism to students’ attitudes toward democratic values. Contemporary Education: The International Conference of Teachers and Educators in Israel and the Diaspora. July 7-9, 1998. Haifa, Israel.

31Cohen, A., & Yoged, A. The relationship between authoritarianism to teachers’ attitudes toward democratic values. Contemporary Education: The International Conference of Teachers and Educators in Israel and the Diaspora. July 7-9, 1998. Haifa, Israel.

32Cohen, A., & Nathan, S. Effect of test anxiety on attention - Color-naming of test related words. The International Conference on Psychology. June 12-14, 2000. University of Haifa, Israel.

33Schiff, R., Cohen, A., & Schwartzwald, O. (2000). The influence of the morphological, phonological and orthographic characteristics of words on the oral reading accuracy of second, forth and sixth graders. In F. Nassar, N. Hativa. & Z. Shits (Eds.), The proceedings of the 22nd AYALA Conference: Educational Research and Implementation in the Changing World (pp. 154-157). Even Yehuda: Reches.

38Schiff, R., Cohen, A., & Har-Zvi S. A metacognitive training program using linguistic analogies and its effects on Israeli third graders’ spelling and cognitive abilities. International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology. The 9th International Conference. July 7-10, 2003, University Of Washington Campus, Seattle, Washington.

43Cohen, A., Amrani, N., & Maslovati, N. Teachers’ rationale for choosing evaluation methods for their students. Facet Theory: Theory and Research in Social Sciences. Conference at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. June 6th 2006.

44Cohen, A., & Hupert, S. Inauthentic behavior as a measure of luck of differentiation among marriage couples. Conference at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. June 6th 2006.

Cohen, A. (2009). The facets of depression: A new inventory for measuring depression. In A. Cohen (Ed.), Facet Theory and Scaling: In search of structure in Behavioral and social sciences. Jerusalem: FTA.

Cohen, A., & Levy, A. (2009). The Facets of Depression: A New Inventory for Measuring Depression. In A. Cohen (Ed.), Facet Theory and Scaling: In search of structure in Behavioral and social sciences (pp. 215-227). Jerusalem: FTA.

Cohen, A., Kramerski, B., & Mevarech, Z. (2009). Self-Regulation in Learning Questionnaire among the Israeli Examinees of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). In A. Cohen (Ed.), Facet Theory and Scaling: In search of structure in Behavioral and social sciences (pp 281-291). Jerusalem: FTA.

Cohen, A. (1990). Experiences of former graduate students. In H. J. Klausmeier: The Wisconsin Center for Education Research: Twenty-five years of knowledge generation and educational improvement. Madison, WI: School of Education, University of Wisconsin. Cohen, A. (1999).

Cohen, A. 2002). Gestalt therapy and mechanisms of defense: How to identify them and how to work with them according to the gestalt therapy principles. A teaching kit that enables the assimilation of gestalt therapy approach to mechanism of defense.

Cohen A. (2002). Chief academic consultant of three volumes’ series written by R. Pasternak on: Issues in the sociology of education. Tel Aviv: Open University (in Hebrew).

CONVENTION PRESENTATIONS

Cohen, A., & Farley, F. H. The common item problem in measurement. Presented at the Annual American Educational Research Association Convention, April 15, 1974, Chicago.

Barr, H., Ottenberg, D. J., & Cohen, A. Drinking by addicts. Presented at the North American Congress on Alcohol and Drug Problems, 1975.

Cohen, A. Interface between abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Presented in a panel on the National Drug and Alcohol Collaborative Project at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, June 12, 1976, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Cohen, A. Education as a primary prevention of delinquency. Children of Prisoners: Problems and Solutions. June 12, 1991. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Sagi, R. The relationship between attitudes towards democracy and personality variables in high school students. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. June 29-30, 1991; Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Apple, Z., & Cohen, A. Marital enrichment according to PAIRS model. The 9th Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Family Therapy, October 21-22, 1992, Israel.

Cohen A., & Agbaria, A. A. J. The perception of school climate among Arab high school students. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. February 16-18, 1993; Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Schiff, R. A comparison of linguistic, characteristics between poor skilled readers. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. February 16-18, 1993; Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Cinamon, R. The relationship between the parent punishing style and the child attribution style. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Research in Education. February 16-18, 1993; Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

Cohen, A. School climate and educating for democracy. International Conference for Democracy in Multicultural Society; June 6-10, 1993, Jerusalem, Israel.

Apple, Z., & Cohen, A. A training program for leaders in group work with couples. The National Conference on Group Theory. March, 1994, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Shalom, H. A new version of a questionnaire for measuring school climate. The 11th Scientific Conference of the Israeli Society of Research in Education, February 5-7, 1995, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Apple, Z. A new scale for measuring level of differentiation among couples. The 7th International Conference on Family Therapy. March 10-13, 1997. Jerusalem, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Shtauber, G. The relationship between family climate and authoritarianism to students’ attitudes toward democratic values. Contemporary Education: The International Conference of Teachers and Educators in Israel and the Diaspora. July 7-9, 1998. Haifa, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Yoged, A. The relationship between authoritarianism to teachers’ attitudes toward democratic values. Contemporary Education: The International Conference of Teachers and Educators in Israel and the Diaspora. July 7-9, 1998. Haifa, Israel.

Cohen, A., & Nathan, S. Effect of test anxiety on attention - Color-naming of test related words. The International Conference on Psychology. June 12-14, 2000. University of Haifa, Israel.

Schiff, R., Cohen, A., & Schwartzwald, O. (2000). The influence of the morphological, phonological and orthographic characteristics of words on the oral reading accuracy of second, forth and sixth graders. In F. Nassar, N. Hativa. & Z. Shits (Eds.), The proceedings of the 22nd AYALA Conference: Educational Research and Implementation in the Changing World (pp. 154-157). Even Yehuda: Reches.

Schiff, R., Cohen, A., & Har-Zvi S. A metacognitive training program using linguistic analogies and its effects on Israeli third graders’ spelling and cognitive abilities. International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology. The 9th International Conference. July 7-10, 2003, University Of Washington Campus, Seattle, Washington.

Cohen, A., Amrani, N., & Maslovati, N. Teachers’ rationale for choosing evaluation methods for their students. Facet Theory: Theory and Research in Social Sciences. Conference at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. June 6th 2006.

Cohen, A., & Hupert, S. Inauthentic behavior as a measure of luck of differentiation among marriage couples. Conference at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. June 6th 2006.